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Can someone tell me what years 'Dont Keep It In The Shadows' & 'So Much For L.A.' were released please? Also can anyone give me the track listing of the LP 'Forces Of The Night' from '79 please?
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Hi,
Forces Of The Night Tracklisting
Side 1
Forces Of The Night 5:58
Have A Good Time 6:22
It Makes Me Believe In Love Again 4:02
Forces Of The Night (Reprise) 1:56
Side 2
Hot Jungle Drums and Voo Doo Rhythm 4:46
On With The Dance 6:24
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark 6:10
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Thanx needle.
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Acetate [Level 1]
'So Much For L.A.' 12" was released in 1980 (though I think the LP vs is better, if less punchy)
'Dont Keep It In The Shadows' was taken from the Tea Dance album which was a 1977 release (I've only got the full length vs on the CD comp).
Birdie
BTW Have you heard his 1995 single 'The Rounds & the Deep Dark Night' - not a classic but it still has THAT VOICE...
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Originally Written by birdie
No I haven't; he's an unusual artist isn't he? Hard to categorise. Thanx 4 the info!;-)
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Underground Hit [Level 5]
Funny I was just going to post about DC Larue! I'll just add it here.
Can someone give me, or point me in the right direction of basic info on Larue? Like how successful was his music, how many albums, any reviews, or anything? How much of his stuff is on CD?
Back when I was a teen getting into disco, after Moroder, Cerrone, Costandinos Midney and those eurodisco giants I got really obssessed with I started getting interested in Bob Esty's productions just as he was so instrumental in the production of fave works of mine like Once Upon a time and Last Dance. Besides Cher and some Jabara I realized he had produced a song on the TGIF soundtrack DO You Want the Real thing. I found one CD of his--12" Collection on Hot Records so bought it. I played it but kinda forgot about it.
I was playing it again recently and realized for me the definite highlight were the three songs done with Larue. Do You Want the Real Thing 12 minute version is spectacular, I love LOVE Let them Dance (too bad the sound quality ont he Hot recording of this track is horrendous but the short mix on the Casablanca 4 CD set is better) and my fave is Hot Jungle Drums and Voodoo Rhythm. GREAT track. I prob prefer the Esty tracks as they sound more Eurodisco to me (i know both Larue and Esty were American but...)
As for the other tracks they were all fairly good. He can't really sing but it suits his usual themes which are kinda cynical somewhat critical looks at nightclub etiquette (Meter Man is about getting tired of one nighters, Do You Want the Real Thing about how to pick up at a club, Let them Dance seems to be about peopel who dance, live for the night and party too much, Cathedrals is kinda similar, etc). The linear notes of the CD make huge claims about his success--Cathedrals they say was the first song to top the UK R&B charts by a white male singer, and was called the "blue suede shoes" of disco, etc etc
So also out of his albums how many did Esty help produce too?
E
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Hi Eric-Alot of my answers are from memory,so
these aren't "definitive",but here goes: "Cathedrals"
was very big in the US ,but in discos only-and usually gay clubs.Although it's been mildly argued
about at this site,Larue was gay and wrote about
his experiences in clubs,bathhouses,etc.."Cathedrals" is still played today and it stands up pretty good.His next LP
was even bigger "The Tea Dance"(refers to afternoon gay clubbing)having multi cut listings
like "Don't keep it in Shadows"."Indiscreet""O-baba"and more.My favorite DC,though is the 12 mix of "Let Them Dance" however-this is where all his quirks came together.He cannot sing,no argument here,but that high pleading voice
with the right backing was strangely appealing.Like
most of Amanda Lear's stuff-I have to be in the exact mood and environment-and then it's like a great "high".(trivia:that's Patti Brooks singing back up on "Let Them Dance")I have only recently rediscovered "Jungle Drums" and especially "Do you want the real thing" from listening to the
Trocedero tribute CD's,but again in the right mix,they sound great.As for CD's unfortunately the
Hott comp is all I've got-and I almost threw it out
my car window when I heard the mastering job on this-what crack were they smoking?I also have the Casablanca box too,but no one was paying attention
and put short/edited versions-inexcusable.
I don't know how much more Esty produced though-the later Casablanca stuff?Anyways,I hope
this helped a little!
Thom
P.S.-Eric-do a seller search on ebay for Shakh.Click on
"other items" and there are three Casablanca CD's that
are not available anywhere.These are recorded from the
LP's but he does an excellent job as I have bought 4 CD's
from him in the past.Just an FYI
Last edited by thommy2458; July 8th, 2006 at 11:34 PM.
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Nice post Thom. There is "something" about that voice isn't there ....
DEEP DARK DELICIOUS NIGHT was the first "only heard within a club" song I vividly recall hearing .... in the clubs .... and then having to chase down and own .... Bohannon soon after .... but I think this was first ....
It was so unlike anything else to me and while I liked CATHEDRALS too ... it was this DELICIOUS NIGHT that suckered me .... that guitar gallup , furious strings ..........those intriguingly upbeat but also shady , sexually ambiguous lyrics presented by that " pleading " voice as you describe it .... hooked me throughout the song until the final climatic finish 8-)
I then eagerly bought the Tea Dance LP as a true LaRue fan ... right away when released with no previewing ... and thought it had its moments .... recall playing O- BA-BA in high rotation ..... and then that was it for me ....
*****
Baby, take me
high upon a hillside
high up where the stallion
meets the sun
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Remicks-For the life of me,I cannot remember where this track came from-was it the Cathedrals
LP? was it a 12"?
Thanks!!
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Thom ---
I don't have the album handy ....but it's on the Cathedrals LP ....
*****
Baby, take me
high upon a hillside
high up where the stallion
meets the sun
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"Deep, Dark Delicious Night" is a track on the "Cath-e-drals" LP (that's the way it's printed).
I first became aware of this track in a Disconet remix titled "Making The Rounds/Deep Dark Delicious Night" released sometime in 1983, I think.:icon_question:
"Hope is eternal so you keep on making the rounds"--this phrase haunted me one night on the Trocadero Transfer dance floor. I asked Ralph Brown, the record buyer at Aloha, the next day what this was....and he told me. I said it seemed "profound" in my altered state; he said '"Profound, huh?", & rolled his eyes...... then he went upstairs and brought down the Disconet version and I BOUGHT IT!!! FULL PRICE!!! :lol::lol::lol: ( around $25 bucks back then I think; rather pricy for a mere "shop girl" like me!!!) :razz::razz::razz:
I must pull this one out and compare to the original version--which got exactly 1 mention on the Billboard charts.
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
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Marky .... this is when I find the charting process flawed ( not your fault ) ....I would say that part of the continuing success of CA-----THE-----DRALS :-P on your chart is because of DDDN ... even though no reporting literally singles it out .....:roll: ... but if they are intending to report the album CA-THE -DRALS , and not just the song by that title ....well .... DDDN is part of it ...Also as you say ... Roberta Kelly is #1 elsewhere .... in Record World .... well , she would be much higher ( but not #1 ) on your chart too if her songs weren't splintered ......
I must pull this one out and compare to the original version--which got exactly 1 mention on the Billboard charts.
oh well ......
no, I'm not advocating you change anything ...... it's fine and wonderful as is .... just observing .....8)
*****
Baby, take me
high upon a hillside
high up where the stallion
meets the sun
Chart Hit [Level 6]
Oh Mark, I can just see RB responding to you now. Did he follow with his rich and wonderful laugh? I sure do miss him!
BTW, my notes show I paid between $20 to $25 for the Disconet sets. So, it depended on who was ringing up our sales and how generous they felt about "Employee Discounts"! Remember the owner's controlled the inventory of Disconets and Hot Tracks pretty well, keeping them in the upstairs office instead of down on the main floor?? Can you imagine if they treated all of their store's inventory that carefully? Aloha Records might still be in business! Wouldn't that be something??? :o
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Hot Jungle Drums And Voodoo Rhythm is a great song that I wish would be available on CD; obviously I would want the 9:46 version.
I was a bit disappointed by the aforementioned four-disc set released 10 years ago; Casablanca's library was much more vast than the songs provided, and leaving out Kiss and Santa Esmeralda was unacceptable. You can ditto the edits on the Love And Kisses tracks as well.
"Everyone knows the real reason why you got that part it was the time you spent on that casting couch"--Antoine Merriwether
"Excuse me, Miss Thing, but both of us spent time on that couch"--Blaine Edwards
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Amazing that I should stumble on this thread. I was browsing in a record shop here in Manchester on Saturday just gone and saw a 12" single that had Hot Jung Drums on one side and a track by another artist on the other. There was a write-up on the sleeve raving about its energy. I have no idea where the 12" comes from other than it indicated that it was from the States.
toto
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Hey Toto--I was gonna ask in the offtopic room of the Donna Summer forum but here you are anyway.
Salsoul, the full 9 minut emix is on that Hot release of DC 12" mixes that I mentioned--you're lucky because, unlike the 12" of Let them Dance the sound is pretty good for Hot Jungle. the CD is still in print according to amazon.
Thanks for all your info guys, now I'm anxious to hear the songs not included on that cd. I especially want the Bob Esty stuff as his productionwork seems to have added an extrra sheen to tracks like Voodoo Drums that is lacking in the earlier stuff (I admit to being a sucker for that full on glossy Eurodisco sound). Did he do two full albums with Esty? (the 12" d mentions that Let them Dance and Voodoo are from seperate albums).
As for that 4 disc Casablanca set I think overall it does a good job--especially for back in 94 when a lot less was out there. I agree with others here about some edits (I understand putting the edit of Romeo and Juliet on as otherwise you'd have to include the full album really but it's still a shame, other edits are iffier though liek the Love and Kisses stuff--Costandinos never does well edited I guess--and some are perplexing such as Let Them Dance which says it's a 12" mix but is much shorter than the one on the Larue CD, and I've never liked the DJ Promo alternate version of MacPark Suite which is used on the set and unfortunately is the version used more often than not now--the original flows better).
Ya there's prob a bit too much Donna Summer, but she's a fave of mine so no complaints, not enough of other Moroder productions (I think Casablanca released the Munich Machine stuff etc) but I did discover some great tracks from it, the sound is flawless and I think it does the job. Kiss wouldn't have really fit on well if you ask me.
E
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